The kind of people with $100k to blow on this are the kind of people that took two concorde seats from NY to LDN - one for their coat, the kind of people that put $50k down on a hand of cards. Hell, even modest dot-com millionaires. It's a status symbol. Next time you're at a cocktail party, you can say "Yeah, when I was in space..."
$100k isn't an issue to these people. $100k isn't exactly an unimagineable ammount to a lot of people. It's about £60k. The average house in the UK is worth two and a half time this. Anyone with a 4 bed detached in the home counties has made more then that in the last two years. There are a lot of Brits selling up and emmigrating. The cash is there.
Good for you, I played it on a 486 too. It (and day of the tentacle) still kicks ass compared with the majority of games arround. Trouble with the genre is theres limited, if any, replayability.
Maglev is fine if you want to get from point A (usually city centre), and point B (usually city centre). For long distances the transfer time is irellevent, but for your daily commute maglev is wasted. I travel 30 miles a day in to work, by foot, train and tube. It takes me 70 minutes. 10 by foot, 40 by train, and 10 by tube. 5 minute transfer at both points. If the train ran non-stop it would shave about 15 minutes off my journey. If it ran non-stop at maglev speed, it would take about 5 minutes, halving my commute. I'm not aware of anyone else doing Twyford to Ealing at 7:40 each morning, so a direct train wouldn't be much good. In realiity it would call, as it does now, at Reading-Twyford-Maidenhead-Burnham-Slough-Hayes-Ea ling-Paddington. Given the allowed acceleration of vehicles with standing passangers, a maglev might shave 10 minutes off the journey.
While maglev might help on middle distance trains (London - Manchester, Birmingham-Glasgow), that's a different market from the flying car ideal.
I want a car that electrocutes the idiot driver yapping on the cel phone instead of paying attention to the road. I've lost count of the number of times I've almost been creamed by some stupid suburban SUV-driving soccer-mom with a cel phone glued to her head. HANG UP AND DRIVE!
Last summer, I saw a guy talking on a cel phone while riding a bike. What call is so bloody important that you can't pull over or take it later?
I'm a little unsure why you bolded that. Is someone riding a bike so rare that you are shocked, or do you believe that a rider and bike (200lb tops) out of control at 20mph is somehow more worrying then a 6000lb car and driver out of control at 60mph?
I could have sworn a copy came through the post yesterday. Ironically one of the guys in the studio I'm evesdropping on just this second said he bought it yesterday too.
That R&D department (a black box which you pour money in and get cool toys out) is possible because of the £120 a year fee every household in the UK has to pay.
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If I drove a manual for my daily commute I'd be registered disabled, permanently limping and in constant pain
Strange how everyone else manages it.
Personally my commute invovles me watching a dvd and reading some emails, or occasionally reading a book.
The kind of people with $100k to blow on this are the kind of people that took two concorde seats from NY to LDN - one for their coat, the kind of people that put $50k down on a hand of cards. Hell, even modest dot-com millionaires. It's a status symbol. Next time you're at a cocktail party, you can say "Yeah, when I was in space..."
$100k isn't an issue to these people. $100k isn't exactly an unimagineable ammount to a lot of people. It's about £60k. The average house in the UK is worth two and a half time this. Anyone with a 4 bed detached in the home counties has made more then that in the last two years. There are a lot of Brits selling up and emmigrating. The cash is there.
I have 25GB on my 4G Ipod
Wow, that's some mean compression
But it's not America, so Americans dont care.
non-Kyoto countries
So anywhere but Japan then?
Good for you, I played it on a 486 too. It (and day of the tentacle) still kicks ass compared with the majority of games arround. Trouble with the genre is theres limited, if any, replayability.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y?
Of course you rely on the servers in sources.list being uptodate
Religion is a bold-faced lie. It's just happened to gain social acceptance.
As did "Iraq has WMD's"
I'm imagining that whatever comes after the Falcon V
Falcon VI?
Maglev is fine if you want to get from point A (usually city centre), and point B (usually city centre). For long distances the transfer time is irellevent, but for your daily commute maglev is wasted. I travel 30 miles a day in to work, by foot, train and tube. It takes me 70 minutes. 10 by foot, 40 by train, and 10 by tube. 5 minute transfer at both points. If the train ran non-stop it would shave about 15 minutes off my journey. If it ran non-stop at maglev speed, it would take about 5 minutes, halving my commute. I'm not aware of anyone else doing Twyford to Ealing at 7:40 each morning, so a direct train wouldn't be much good. In realiity it would call, as it does now, at Reading-Twyford-Maidenhead-Burnham-Slough-Hayes-Ea ling-Paddington. Given the allowed acceleration of vehicles with standing passangers, a maglev might shave 10 minutes off the journey.
While maglev might help on middle distance trains (London - Manchester, Birmingham-Glasgow), that's a different market from the flying car ideal.
$100USD? So whats that, about £15.40GBP?
Wow, A Florida joke that doesn't involve Bush/Gore?! The world certainly has changed
I want a car that electrocutes the idiot driver yapping on the cel phone instead of paying attention to the road. I've lost count of the number of times I've almost been creamed by some stupid suburban SUV-driving soccer-mom with a cel phone glued to her head. HANG UP AND DRIVE!
Last summer, I saw a guy talking on a cel phone while riding a bike. What call is so bloody important that you can't pull over or take it later?
I'm a little unsure why you bolded that. Is someone riding a bike so rare that you are shocked, or do you believe that a rider and bike (200lb tops) out of control at 20mph is somehow more worrying then a 6000lb car and driver out of control at 60mph?
I use a TV for my games consoles and to watch DVDs.
Which you dont need a license for.
Plus my girlfriend watches TV.
Ahh, women. Costly things. Fortunatly I've only got one myself.
Update: 09/21 02:33 EDT The World of Warcraft Beta is back up and running with a new patch.
So this patch makes it immune to hurricanes? Wow, that's some funky coding!
They're actually seriously suggesting they use a ship/platform as the base.
Launching objects into space from sea? They must be crazy!
If you want an island, I here the Pitcairn Islands may be going spare soon.
Worth every penny if you ask me, and I don't even watch TV.
You dont watch TV, but you have a TV license?
I could have sworn a copy came through the post yesterday. Ironically one of the guys in the studio I'm evesdropping on just this second said he bought it yesterday too.
That R&D department (a black box which you pour money in and get cool toys out) is possible because of the £120 a year fee every household in the UK has to pay.
Without copyright law, the GPL degrades to BSD or Public Domain (IANAL). Any derived work is also free of copyright. No real harm there.
That's rubbish. I'd have thrown the barometer off the top of the building, timed it going down, and worked out the height from s~4.9t^2.
Next to the self sealing stem bolts
Midnight on the M4 out of London? 95mph is slow.
Fastest I've personally driven is 117mph (fastest I could get the car) up the M61 at 3AM, and again up the M5 on xmas eve
I bought my SCO/Linux license last month, managed to whittle the salesman down to $600 too! Will it be transferable?
Vera would, if you put her in a suit